Myspace court trial

Although cartridge casings consistent with several firearms were found at the scene of the crime, the bullet recovered from Valdez' body could not be matched. No firearms were recovered. In his opinion, Judge Tom Price writes that the trial court was right to allow the profile as circumstantial evidence to show Tienda was involved in the slaying, that "the internal content of the MySpace postings - photographs, comments, and music - was sufficient circumstantial evidence to establish a prima facie case such that a reasonable juror could have found that they were created and maintained by the appellant.

I kill to stay rich!!. The trial court does not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence where it "reasonably believes that a reasonable juror could find that the evidence has been authenticated.

We may not reverse the trial court's decision when that decision is within the zone of reasonable disagreement. See Powell v. State, 63 S. There were photographs of appellant on the MySpace pages and references to the murder of the complainant, as well as appellant's being arrested and placed on electronic monitoring.

The record shows that appellant was placed on the Electronic Monitoring Program as a condition of his bond on October 24, Comments on the pages referenced a Hector snitching on him and the fact that more than one person was involved in the shooting for which appellant was arrested. Conclusion: The inherent nature of social networking websites encourages members who choose to use pseudonyms to identify themselves by posting profile pictures or descriptions of their physical appearances, personal backgrounds, and lifestyles.

This type of individualization is significant in authenticating a particular profile page as having been created by the person depicted in it. The more particular and individualized the information, the greater the support for a reasonable juror's finding that the person depicted supplied the information. See Griffin v. Maryland, A. Having reviewed the details of the MySpace pages admitted into evidence in this case, we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the evidence.

We overrule appellant's second point of error. You can throw in numbers, dots and dashes, too. Pick one that's hard-to-crack, only known by you, and at least 6 characters long. Use this to log in to your account, receive notifications and get handy updates from us.

Date of Birth? Please enter the account owner's birth date here. We based it off your Facebook details. But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. Select one Female Male Unspecified. Connect me to Facebook friends and artists on Myspace? You may already know people on Myspace. If we find matches from your Facebook friends, we'll connect you to them right away. Tell my friends about Myspace?

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